It is listed as endangered, threatened or rare in the northeast. Mainly due to loss of habitat, from disappearing wetlands due to road or building construction. This in turn causes a fragmented population, making it harder for cross pollination between individuals. eattheplanet.org/the-story-of...

Lyndon B. Johnson's response to satire

For years, we’ve been sharing photos of some of the Asian elephants sporting fashionable accessories in the form of hay hats. Maia, and Guillermina are known to toss hay all over themselves (as did Lady back in her day) and wear their hay often and proudly.

For about 40 years at Ecoparque Mendoza, Kenya could only reach for trees outside her enclosure. 🌳 Now, at sanctuary, she’s surrounded by them—free to forage, snack, and enjoy as she pleases. A life once out of reach is finally hers. Unfortunately, it’s common for elephants in captivity

America was never supposed to be a nation built on amnesia. Our museums and parks exist to remind us of our trials—the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s only regimes eager to control the narrative that silence inconvenient truths to make themselves look better. www.levelman.com/national-par...

“If we continue to take from the ocean at the scale we presently are, and use the ocean as a dump site as we presently are, yes we’re putting the fish and the whales and the krill in Antarctica and the high seas at risk, but mostly, we are putting ourselves at risk.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

In the middle, "Abyssal hydrothermal springs—Cryptic incubators for brooding octopus" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The North Cascade Range is home to nearly 100 named glaciers, with 15 near Glacier Peak. the past five summers have eliminated exceptionally large volumes of ice. “The same thing's happening in New Zealand, in the Alps, in the Andes, Alaska, British Columbia,” www.kuow.org/stories/glac...?

Guillermina is the youngest elephant at the sanctuary. You can read more about the sanctuary elephants on our website. Everyone has their own page! Read Guille's here: globalelephants.org/...

Aletsch Glacier has lost 4.6 m of ice thickness at Konkordiaplatz (2800 m asl) during this summer 2025! 🧊😱 - It was 6 m during the absolute 2022 record year - 4.7 m in 2023 - 4 m in 2024 All years are now terrible... the new normal in the Alps! 🔥📈 Data by @matthias-huss.bsky.social @glamos.ch 1/

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

Children Know Where do they get it from? They get it from us. Why do they do these things? They learn them from us. How do the children know how to hate, who to hate? They're watching us. How do the children know how to love, who to love? They're watching us. soundcloud.com/swivelable/l...

Presidents? SCOTUS grants them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. Hello?

Motherfucking wind farms…

If you like #OzricTentacles, #Sky, #EnnioMorricone or #CarlosSantana, you might love @flickermusic.bsky.social for #BandcampFriday!😍 All tracks are #instrumental and composed on #guitar in an #eclectic range of styles.🎸 #progrock #latinrock #folkmusic wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-lea...

The U.S. Forest Service today posted notice of its intention to roll back significant protections on some 45 million acres of mid-elevation forestland, and will accept public comments through Sept. 19 to gauge Americans’ appetite for the change. www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...?

Adopted in 2001, the rule has restricted logging, mining, oil drilling and gas extraction in some of the nation’s most remote and untouched public lands – restrictions that the Trump administration is seeking  to lift. The 3 week comment period ends Sept. 19. tennesseelookout.com/briefs/trump...?

The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?

A Chinese “clean energy” project that threatens to wipe out a rare Indonesian orangutan www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/a-chinese-cl...

I’ve got a short story in the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Here is the final cover (other versions have been circulating). My story “The Apology Tour” is directly linked to DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. I’m really proud of it. Not sure of the pub date but will post when I know.

Sends chills down my spine. So much weeping going on www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRC...

Almost all of the energy that we have access to comes from the sun, and photosynthesis — the process by which plants turn the sun’s energy into chemical energy it can use — requires CO2. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...?

Unsurprisingly, just like human animals. "Night nests are intricate sleeping platforms often built as high as 20 meters in the tree canopy and including comfort elements such as pillows, blankets, mattresses (linings) and roofs to protect from adverse weather" phys.org/news/2025-08...

I’ll admit, I thought there would be some check on RFK and his gutting of the U.S. medical and science establishments.

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

Borneo is home to 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Nearly 90 percent of all orangutans in the world can be found there. The rest are on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...?

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/

"Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild." ‪@erinvogel.bsky.social‬ phys.org/news/2025-08...

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

54 years ago today, the corporate takeover of American politics began with Lewis Powell's infamous memo. I watched it happen with my own eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbgfnpJN9w

Republicans are determined to inflict irreparable harm to the lives of millions They have one goal in mind: to conceal tax breaks for their wealthy billionaires while simultaneously withdrawing health care and food benefits from families that rely on them. hudsonvalleypost.com/hochul-trump...

At the easternmost point in the US. Walked a bit of coast trail today. I could've stayed out there all day... #Maine

Huckleberries have been replaced by more exotic and commercially farmed options. The tart-tasting berry has such a variety of uses, an interesting history, and is a great source of nutrition eattheplanet.org/huckleberry-...

After breakfast, Maia was loud & chatty, with Bambi rushing to her side. But sleepy Guille stayed put, resting her head on the fence, snoozing through the ruckus. Read more: globalelephants.org/guille-sleep...

Sixty Seconds of Streamside Serenity Soundtrack (Rex makes an appearance for authenticity.)

HAPPY ORANGUTAN DAY!

"The act of humanitarianism comes down to one thing: Individual human beings reaching out to those others who find themselves in the most difficult circumstances." - Dr. James Orbinski, former President of the MSF International Council, 1999 Nobel Peace Prize speech

vested interests hijacked the negotiations. Countries with major petrochemical producers resisted caps on virgin plastic production... Legitimate scientific concerns about harm have been downplayed by powerful interests... with tobacco, PFAS, asbestos, and climate change. phys.org/news/2025-08...

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

An octopus on the run.

Removal of a hornet’s nest.

Now this is a master class 🔥

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010. We must get big money out of politics.